Sadness, identity, and plastic in over-shopping: The interplay of materialism, poor credit management, and emotional buying motives in predicting compulsive buying

•We examine the mediating links from materialistic values to compulsive consumption.•Poor money management mediates the materialism/compulsive buying relationship.•Bad credit management accounts for the mediation by money management.•Hopes for mood improvement and transformation through shopping are also mediators.•The model completely mediates the materialism/compulsive buying relationship.